Manaphy

Manaphy is a Water type Pokémon in Pokemon GO and it will be the only mythical with the ability to breed, Phione. As a Mythical, stats wise isn’t expected much from it as a meta relevant water Pokémon. If the way of obtaining Manaphy will be through Special Research, it will be on level 15, so his MAX CP will be 1399 (1885/2332 MAX CP in raids for standard and weather boosted respectively).

Manaphy has a MAX CP of 3265, with ATK of 210, DEF of 210 and STA of 225. Those stats makes him a less bulkier Vaporeon, but with a slightly better attack.

Manaphy in the Meta

As stated before, his generic Mythical stats won’t help with it usability. As it is impossible to compete for the A tier (Kyogre, Gyarados and soon to be Palkia), Manaphy will most likely place among tier B Pokémon.

To explain this more accurately, here’s a chart with the top Water Pokémon.

Water Type

Max CP

Attack

Defense

Stamina

Kyogre

4115

270

228

205

Palkia

3991

280

215

189

Gyarados

3391

237

186

216

Manaphy

3265

210

210

225

Vaporeon

3114

205

161

277

Milotic

3005

192

219

216

Suicune

2983

180

235

225

While Kyogre occupies the top spot, but it can be dethroned very soon in terms of DPS by Palkia, depending on Palkia movepool. Gyarados, despite the attack gap, he can still be considered a Tier AWater Pokémon (Kingler would belong to this tier, but his movepool sucks).
Manaphy is a fairly balanced Pokémon, but that’s worthless in Pokémon Go battle mechanics. Attack is the key and with 210 ATK, Tier B, along side with Vaporeon, Swampert, Feraligatr, Empoleon and Kingler is his place.

In Trainer Battles however, Manaphy might care quite well with its max CP only being slightly about the limit of the Ultra League.

Manaphy Expected Movepool

Fast Moves

Charge Moves

Bubble

Waterfall

Surf

Psychic

Bubble Beam

Bold Indicates STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus).

Surf instead of Hydro Pump is an advantage DPS wise, but is still won’t make of Manaphy a meta relevant Pokémon in the current system. Maybe in the future there will be a place for him in the meta (with Mew and Celebi, among many others).

Weather Influence on Manaphy

As a water Pokémon he has weakness to Grass and Electric types of 140%. The best counters will be Raikou, Electivire and Zapdos.

Manaphy is resistant against Fire, Ice, Steel and Water.

Weather

Pros

Cons

Sunny

—

Boosts super-effective Grass moves

Partly Cloudy

—

—

Cloudy

—

—

Rainy

Boosts its potential Water type moves

Boosts super-effective Electric moves

Fog

—

—

Windy

Boosts its potential Psychic type moves

—

Snow

—

—

Shiny Manaphy

Won’t be that much of a difference between Regular and Shiny Manaphy aside from a lighter blue shade on the shiny version.

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